With Care

A multi-site project on two billboards along E Hastings St between Glen Dr and Vernon Dr, and on one billboard along Clark Dr and Venables St, Vancouver

Jorian Charlton’s practice centres on portraiture that celebrates Black culture and community. Working with friends, models, and members of her broader social circle, Charlton continually investigates family, intimacy, human connection, and love. Her images elucidate community by capturing a sense of belonging and that which unites us.

  While Charlton works across fashion photography and simultaneously maintains her artistic practice, the images selected for the billboards offer a quieter, more contemplative, and less direct feel than the photographs that comprise her commercial work. In her artistic practice, she often features delicate, gentle images of children and young women,  such as the back of a child’s head, adorned with a beautiful pink bow, and another of friends in a tender embrace, crafting a decidedly subjective, caring gaze that defines her work. Her careful use of light constructs an inviting, warm atmosphere for her sitters and the viewer alike. Through her work she makes visible that which is difficult to convey in a photograph – love, care, and human connection.